Whoa, Look it's 2014!

Hello, All!

I've been gone a while, I know. Shame on me. To be honest I just picked up editing again last week, and until then I refused to post before I had something to report on. So here I am!

I've gotten around half a chapter done every day I've worked on it for the past week or so, so that's a good pace- as long as I'm actually getting stuff done. I'm about halfway through, which is exciting! the chapter I'm editing at the moment is toward the end of Part Two. Part Three is going to be a long one.

It's strange to think I wrote the words I'm editing over a year ago. Thankfully, I seem to have reached a point where I was writing well, which is a great relief. Editing was going horribly slowly and was just plain discouraging before, but I'm not actively hating what I see on the page now. Besides some overall agreement in what characters said earlier in the story and logistical things like- in this one scene I seem to have changed my mind on who was in the room after I wrote it, so I have to make a decision and fix that. There are a few characters I've been noting need some more TLC, too. But really, all's well, and it's such a relief.

The next part- Part Three, the Desert, is very long, but also has the majority of the action-y action, and is more fast-paced and (hopefully) suspenseful and blood-pumping. I also wrote it more recently, so I trust that writing more. I'm really excited for it! I remember actually writing the post about reaching Part Three on this blog.

It's entertaining, the strange things I remember when I reach certain points in the story. like "Oh I was eating pickles when I wrote this" or "Ah, that description was inspired by the lovely weather the day I wrote it (even if the description had nothing to do with weather)" and I wonder if professional authors remember things like that when they look at their own books. I wonder if a book really stays so personal, specific, and 'your own' even after editing and once it goes through the publishing process.

So here's where I am so far:

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Problems I'm Thinking About
-logistical consistency
-tweaking language and messy writing
-avoiding a middle slump in the story